Definition of "unmotherly" [unmotherly]

• Not motherly; unmaternal. (adjective)

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• "If Mama Cow continues to act unmotherly, this calf will be a bum orphan."
• "In biographies, Flora is often presented as cruel and unmotherly to Jack."
• "And again solemnly interrogated, declares, that she would have been drawn with wild horses, rather than have touched the bairn with an unmotherly hand."